Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course...
...couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about all the women he has known and all the men he has killed...
...Sixty-five thousand people are totally deaf; 75,000 more are deaf & dumb; 200,000 lack a hand, arm, foot or leg; 300,000 have permanent spinal injuries; 500,000 are blind; 1,000,000 more are permanent cripples...
...grave dangers that will be obvious to anyone who explores beneath the surface. . . . Hovering clouds of war, mounting debt, financial fears and continued deficits in these days of comparative prosperity reveal themselves as sinister symptoms in a diagnosis of our national health. . . . But the American people are not dumb. Their pride in the industrial development of our nation is deep seated, and when they are sure that the unsocial in our midst are eliminated, they will turn to Management's help ... to get the ship back on its course. They know industry has the ability; its good faith alone...
...very ordinary guy. Like Letter-Writer Sullivan I've cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...